Wonderful. However, there's something else you're forgetting. Whatever messages we send would not reach wherever we think this intelligence exists during my lifetime, unless it's in or very close to our solar system, right?
So, it's more a chest-pounding look at us type thing. Maybe down the line some civilization that is more advanced than us will not only be able to travel the incredible distance to reach us, but would try because of a message generated long before they began to exist.
OK, so it doesn't really do us much good, does it?
I'm wondering if we'll bounce it off the moon or some satellite and get the SETI@Home folks overly excited for no reason.
Well, I'm lured into buying expensive dvd's because I like to watch the movies I buy more than once. It also happens I like my dvd player more than my vcr and especially like being able to watch dvds on my laptop in airports when need be.
You're right that most bonus material is pure crap, but it doesn't increase the price that much. It comes down to us justifying paying more for a dvd than it's worth for immediate viewing. I could always rent a dvd I wanted and buy it later...but I've saved like $5 total that way...so no big deal.
My guess is not very far. The Govt has been shelling out grants to some independent researchers for a few years now. I've gone to a few of these researchers' lectures where they practice begging for money and all of them keep saying they expect ~50-100 years before they'll have something useful.
I think you just hit on a big diff between M$ and Linux...one is free, the other isn't. Yeah, ok, I'm captain obvious, but if the M$ guy told you what the problem was (if he knew, and I'm assuming he didn't) he could get in serious trouble for giving away sensitive information about the product.
I don't need to tell you that same problem is nonexistent with a linux dist. The first thing I thought of when reading the topic was a business major (isn't that where "IT" falls?) would expect a corporation making many times more each year than all the linux dists. combined to have better tech support...because isn't that a principal that companies making more money do things better?
Personally, I have yet to find tech support for anything I would call better than anything else's tech support...but maybe less bad.
to keep it cool is simply only run A/C in the house. Yeah, it's canada and will be cold for 10 months out of the year, but you can always put on a sweater!
is a studio makes a movie (badly in most cases) and presents it to the ratings board. They then slap a rating on the film.
The studio can now either make cuts to get the film in a rating that fits with their target audience, or go ahead and release it. Since it's rated R, their target audience shoudln't be 13 yr old kids.
However, if you believe the studio meant for adults to enjoy this movie more than the aforementioned 13 yr old kids, you probably believe tobacco companies want to discourage kids from smoking too.
...especially what you are developing. I think an easier solution for your IT department would be to actually train the developers. That's right, I said it, some developers are as dumb as the marketing department.
If your developers know how to maintain their workstation, your support issues will decrease dramatically. You'd be surprised just how many 'developers' have to call the help desk to find out how to uninstall a program in windows.
You know, there is a good percentage of the "windoze using public" who don't use Linux
because it doesn't provide any benefit other than saying, "I'm using Linux."
Before those you ridicule can be ready for Linux, they need to educate themselves or have someone else teach them about it.
Any effort to get more people interested is a good effort in my opinion, not because MS products are, well, terrible, but because competition is a good thing.
I further disagree. The purpose is for teaching. To do so, you really don't need to learn much of the standard libraries to get a feel for OOP or simple things like 'Hello World.'
When you want to get advanced, Java becomes much easier, especially for graphical programs.
Personally, I taught myself Java and now use it 99% of my time. If you know C++, Java is a snap...so my recommendation would be start them with C or C++ so they can get into some really ugly, cryptic, self-documenting code!
as an incentive for me to buy a newer pc. I buy another comp every two years whether I need to or not. In between, I upgrade as desired. However, every pc I've bought for the last seven or eight years has a processor built on the same, inferior technology. Why do I keep buying Intel/AMD trash? Well, I don't find enough products for the Mac to keep me occupied.
As far as I can tell, we aren't getting new products so much as overclocked products.
Lastly, instead of creating bloated products, look to game designers. If they incorporate more lights in their 3D games, we'll have to buy faster comps with better vid cards to play them. Is that good? Not necessarily. Would it be worthwhile to us? My money is on no. Games aren't important enough and no casual user is compiling massive projects at home. Only people like us.
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So, it's more a chest-pounding look at us type thing. Maybe down the line some civilization that is more advanced than us will not only be able to travel the incredible distance to reach us, but would try because of a message generated long before they began to exist.
OK, so it doesn't really do us much good, does it?
I'm wondering if we'll bounce it off the moon or some satellite and get the SETI@Home folks overly excited for no reason.
You're right that most bonus material is pure crap, but it doesn't increase the price that much. It comes down to us justifying paying more for a dvd than it's worth for immediate viewing. I could always rent a dvd I wanted and buy it later...but I've saved like $5 total that way...so no big deal.
My guess is not very far. The Govt has been shelling out grants to some independent researchers for a few years now. I've gone to a few of these researchers' lectures where they practice begging for money and all of them keep saying they expect ~50-100 years before they'll have something useful.
I don't need to tell you that same problem is nonexistent with a linux dist. The first thing I thought of when reading the topic was a business major (isn't that where "IT" falls?) would expect a corporation making many times more each year than all the linux dists. combined to have better tech support...because isn't that a principal that companies making more money do things better?
Personally, I have yet to find tech support for anything I would call better than anything else's tech support...but maybe less bad.
to keep it cool is simply only run A/C in the house. Yeah, it's canada and will be cold for 10 months out of the year, but you can always put on a sweater!
The studio can now either make cuts to get the film in a rating that fits with their target audience, or go ahead and release it. Since it's rated R, their target audience shoudln't be 13 yr old kids.
However, if you believe the studio meant for adults to enjoy this movie more than the aforementioned 13 yr old kids, you probably believe tobacco companies want to discourage kids from smoking too.
If your developers know how to maintain their workstation, your support issues will decrease dramatically. You'd be surprised just how many 'developers' have to call the help desk to find out how to uninstall a program in windows.
because it doesn't provide any benefit other than saying, "I'm using Linux."
Before those you ridicule can be ready for Linux, they need to educate themselves or have someone else teach them about it.
Any effort to get more people interested is a good effort in my opinion, not because MS products are, well, terrible, but because competition is a good thing.
I'm a Verizon customer and could care less. I don't use their email services. Why should I?
Quit crying about it
I further disagree. The purpose is for teaching. To do so, you really don't need to learn much of the standard libraries to get a feel for OOP or simple things like 'Hello World.'
When you want to get advanced, Java becomes much easier, especially for graphical programs.
Personally, I taught myself Java and now use it 99% of my time. If you know C++, Java is a snap...so my recommendation would be start them with C or C++ so they can get into some really ugly, cryptic, self-documenting code!
think about it...it kinda has benefits
As far as I can tell, we aren't getting new products so much as overclocked products.
Lastly, instead of creating bloated products, look to game designers. If they incorporate more lights in their 3D games, we'll have to buy faster comps with better vid cards to play them. Is that good? Not necessarily. Would it be worthwhile to us? My money is on no. Games aren't important enough and no casual user is compiling massive projects at home. Only people like us.